Olive Veach Lamkin

	Olive Veach Lamkin, 99, of Creal Springs, died on Friday, May 19, 2000 at the Creal Springs Nursing Home in Creal Springs.
	She was a school teacher for 45 years, shaping the lives of hundreds of young minds.  She taught Mathematics at the DuQuoin High School in the 1950s and 1960s.
	Mrs. Lamkin put her own life on hold to raise four children during World War II and the years following tow nieces who were the children of a brother whose wife succumbed to diphtheria.  A third nephew, John W. (Mary Lee), at the age of two days, was taken in by another sister, Luke (Dewey) McCormick nee Veach.
	Preceding her in death were her husband, Dr. William Lamkin; her parents, Frank and Mary (Smart) Veach; two sisters, Ethel (Edwin) Ailes and Lula (Dewey) McCormick; three brothers, Allen (Doris), John (Marguerite) and Albert; a half-sister, Dimple Hurley nee Veach; two half-brothers, Roy (Edna) Veach and clarence (Marion) Veach.
	Surviving are four nieces and nephews, to whom she was the only mother they ever really knew:  Louise Potts, nee Ailes of Eatonville, Wash., Carl (Laura) Veach of Belleville, Nathan (Beverly) Veach of Clyde, NC and Marji (David) Till nee Ailes of Marrita, GA.  Also surviving are a step-son, John Lamkin and numerous great nieces and nephews, many of whom knew her as a grandmother.
	Graveside funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 25 at Gilead Cemetery in Simpson, IL for her family and friends.  Whitnel Funeral Home in Vienna was in charge of arrangements.

